getting lead off front of cylinders?

[lethal larry]

Hey pards, and any of you tell me if you know of a product or technique for getting the lead "rings" off of the front
of my cylinders? I have tried several products and none seem to do the job easily or quickly. I shoot lead bullets only for the SASS and NCOWS matches I shoot. Much obliged.

[Curley Cole]

Here is the way I do it.

when I first take the pistol apart, spray the cylinder real good with Breakfree. Set the front of cylinder in a pool of the BF while you work on the rest of the gun...then take a brass brush to the front of the cylinder and return it to soak while you finish rest of gun. Then take a cotton towel and rub down the cylinder (the ruffer the towel the better) and scrub the face of the cylinder with the towel. If the lead is still there in any amount repeat the process....If you have a build up it may take more scrubbing at first but it will come off real easy next time.

then I oil up the cylinder, and put a daub of moly grease on every other "cog" on the cylinder (it don't take much so everyother will spread out...)

anyways that is how I do it.
curley

I use BreakFree for almost everything...Hoppes #9 for inside barrel and cylinders...

[Fox Creek Kid]

MPRO7 & bronze wool works best. However, your bigger problem is the CAUSE and not the effect.

Sounds like undersized hard lead bullets & maybe light loads. 

[Dances With Coyotes]

Flitz?

[Shotgun Franklin]

There are 'cloths' made to wipe a way lead. They do a great job of removing blue too.

[theammobroker]

I use JB Bore cleaner for the job, seems to work well.  Good luck!

[rickk]

"Wipe away"... yellow cleaning cloth... it works... really!

[lethal larry]

Thanks to all of you who posted suggestions. I'll try them all and see what gives me the best results. Much obliged.

[Montana Slim]

Just a teaser...I shoot BP near-exclusive...& I don't seem to have lead build-up anywhere on the revolvers 

Slim

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Could the leading be caused by poor cylinder indexing or a poor forcing cone?  Just a thought

[lethal larry]

Montana Slim, I don't have that problem either when I shoot BP....only the heathen smokeless! That's teach me I reckon to use new-fangled fad powders.

[Abilene]

Larry, if you shoot BP as well as smokeless, then your problem is solved.  When you shoot BP again it will remove the lead from the face of the cylinder. 

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

Pards, there is nothing wrong with a revolver that leaves rings like this on the front surface of the cylinder. It is not a question of bullet hardness, it is not a question of bullet size. This is simply what happens when lead bullets are fired through a revolver.



What happens when the cartridge fires is that the hot, expanding gasses basically vaporize a tiny portion of the lead at the rear of the bullet. As the bullet crosses the barrel/cylinder gap, some of the gasses escape out of the gap. Since the gap is so narrow, on the order of a few thousandths of an inch, the gasses emerge at very high pressure. As the gas blasts out it deposits lead and carbon on the face of the cylinder in the shape of a ring. Because the gasses dissipate rapidly once they are no longer confined by the gap, the ring has the same dimensions as the rear of the barrel. This is completely normal when shooting lead bullets with Smokeless powder.

Frankly, I gave up long ago worrying about the rings on the front face of a cylinder. Removing them just was not worth the effort and they show up again as soon as you shoot the gun. All my revolvers that are normally fired with Smokeless exhibit these rings. This particular S&W was the first one I grabbed which showed them so well, but they all have them.

One sure cure for these rings, as has already been mentioned, is to shoot Black Powder. For some reason that I have never been able to determine, Black Powder rounds leave no lead behind anywhere. In the forcing cone, in the bore, in the chambers, or on the front face of the cylinder.

You can try the remedies mentioned if you want, but if you shoot revolvers enough, eventually you will just ignore the rings.

[llc]

There is a product manufactured under the name of "Frog Lube".  It is an unusual name but it seems to work very, very well for a number of things.......removal of powder fouling (Pyrodex and smokeless) lead residue, and on a weapon I have that only uses very corrosive Russian ammunition removes the fouling and prevents corrosion and rust.  It was originally developed for use by Seals and other special OP groups.  And no I do not work for them.  I think it might very well solve some of the issues you mention.  llc